He Comes From the Void

Karn sat on the rickety bow with Kai'Sa in his arms, watching Drizzt fiddle with his cards in the stern.

The latter turned over the three cards one by one, then took them back to their hands and shuffled them, and the cycle repeated many times.

Tonight's technique is the old-school tradition of the big river wanderers. The result of the draw made him raise his eyebrows. It may be a lot of gains, but he must show that he will go all out.

In this way, after hearing the bell from Bilgewater rang for the third time, they finally came to a sea area covered with reefs.

This is a dense forest composed of sharp reefs, and the rugged reefs are like daggers erected from the sea.

Of course, the reef out of the sea is not a problem. Sailing is like picking up trouble, and the invisible sharp knife is the real killer.

The reef is known as the "Widowmaker" because they have claimed dozens of boats over the years.

Kahn could easily see the wreckage of a stranded ship.

Broken masts lodged in the middle of the reef, splintered planks swirled in the eddy, and rotten climbing nets tangled around the sharp tops of the reef.

Most of these are due to the stupid captains who are not willing to spend money to hire Baru's Drifters to lead them into the port.

Save money but lose life.

The advantage of the small boat is reflected here.

Under the helm of Graves, the boat nimbly shuttled through the sharp knife-like reef jungle, as if walking on the edge of a knife.

Drizzt reminded Graves to adjust the course by playing the cards non-stop, so that the boat could go to the destination.

When the fourth bell in Bilgewater was about to strike, Drizzt played his cards one last time and said, "We have arrived. I didn't expect that we could draw so far unsinkable."

Graves stopped his oars, and Kaenkasha stood up slightly, looking ahead.

A craggy reef juts out of the sea, big enough to be called an island but looking like any other.

"Really here?" Graves always felt that this treasure place was too low-key, and this is the place where the crown of the abyss is hidden?

"It's true." Drizzt said, "I've read it many times, and the card always tells me that it's here, and the altar is inside."

Graves had nothing to say, he could only trust Drizzt, and rowed the boat to the smooth rock face leeward.

The sea was ups and downs, as if we were about to hit us on the reef at any moment, Graves stabilized the ship with his rich experience, and dropped the anchor decisively.

"How do we climb up?"

But the problem followed. He didn't see the entrance from the front just now, and now he can't see the entrance from the back either. And the reef was wet by the sea, and it was slippery to the touch and there was no place to stay.

"Don't go up." Drizzt pointed out the side of the ship, below the water surface: "The entrance is below."

Graves's heart was cold for a while, and then he looked at Kahn. The two looked as usual, and there was no disturbance.

He suddenly remembered that Kahn handed over the tarpaulin to him before, whether he had already anticipated the current situation, if so, then this intuition is too scary.

"If you are afraid, you can stay on the boat. I will go in alone. Of course, you have to ask our employer's opinion first."

Drizzt had a smirk on his face. Although he didn't quite understand why the two of them, Kahn and Kahn, had to take risks in person, this trip was not easy.

"So that you can escape with the goods alone? Don't think of anything good," said Graves viciously, and began to take off his coat and boots.

"Don't talk nonsense, I can't escape that far." Drizzt was eager to clarify.

The Widowmaker wasn't close to Bilgewater, and his teleportation magic couldn't teleport that far.

Kahn meant for both of them to enter the altar, and he watched Graves pack the ammunition and cigars, making sure they didn't get wet, double-checked and double-barreled the large double-barreled shotgun with a tarp. Wrap it tightly, then tie it firmly on the back, and roll up the sleeves.

"Where is this tunnel?" Graves muttered at last, took a deep breath, and sank into the bottom of the sea like an anchor, looking for the tunnel leading to the altar.

Drizzt watched Graves go into the water, then asked the remaining two, "Are you going in too?"

"Go!" Kahn replied firmly: "We must see the crown of the abyss as soon as possible."

Drizzt didn't say anything when he saw this, a card flicked from his sleeve into his hand, and flipped back and forth briskly between his fingers, as naturally as breathing.

Drizzt put the cards in front of his eyes, let his thoughts out of the body, and concentrated on the cards. Then the cards gradually lit up with blue light, and countless images appeared in the light, and a huge sense of oppression followed.

He concentrated and found his destination in the layers of pictures.

Immediately afterwards, his figure swayed, and a frenzied light and shadow rushed to his face. Drizzt disappeared in front of the eyes of the two, leaving only a slowly falling card, which had lost all magic power.

"Did you become a living person? You played well." Kahn commented, and his serious face suddenly changed into a relaxed expression.

He picked up two Bilgewater cutlasses and placed one in Kai'Sa's hand. The handle of this machete is carved with the image of a sea serpent, so it is especially popular in Bilgewater.

During the handover, Kahn asked her: "Kasha, do you still remember the character design we are going to play?"

"Two little ghosts who are obsessed with exploring shipwreck treasure and becoming legends of the sea." Kaisha said.

"When encountering monsters, try not to expose your skin armor, use knives and guns and attack, and act weaker, so that they can relax their vigilance and think that we can be bullied."

After giving these instructions, Kahn covered his whole body with skin armor, jumped into the water with a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, and Kai'Sa followed closely behind him.

...

It was cold and dark underwater, and something was scurrying about before Graves' eyes, flickering in the corner of his eye.

He dived quickly, and saw a small blue circle under the reef, which was the entrance of the channel.

Without thinking too much, he quickly swam in.

The inside of the channel is darker and not wide, and the smooth stone walls on both sides can be scraped with a finger.

There was light in front of him, he kicked off the stone wall and swam forward, thinking it was a way out, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a glowing jellyfish.

The jellyfish's tentacles floated like a deadly trawl, and Graves swam around it until he hit a wall directly ahead.

He was like a mouse sealed in a bucket and about to drown.

Panic rose like a tidal wave, and Graves' instinct for survival sent Graves swimming upwards until he hit the rocks at the top.

He had almost reached the limit of holding his breath, the air in his lungs was like a poisonous miasma, he fumbled around in desperation, and finally found the exit at the last moment.

With the last of his strength he swam across, broke through the water, and took a deep breath.

It's good to be alive!

Graves froze for a moment as the moonlight fell on the top of his head, and then called out the bastard.

It turned out that there was a way up there, but Drizzt didn't say anything, if he had known about it, he would have found a way to get out of it.

Fortunately, Drizzt was not wrong in his calculations, if the limit was a little bit higher, he would drown in the water, and he would come back to settle accounts with Drizzt the next night of soul eclipse.